Revision as of 04:16, 12 February 2009

Tom Walker's method

... that contains useful info on how to install your ATI driver on Fedora 10. It is this thread to which the 'important information' below pertains.

The contents of that thread are not at all my work, by the way, but pleasingly the UALDK admins decided to give the name "Tom Walker's method" to the process of clicking on the link and reading the info that 'leigh123@linux' had spent hours working out.

However, since then a far easier and more reliable method has been developed by the clever types at RPMFusion. You can read about it here:

The procedure above worked for me for the original release kernel 2.6.27-5 and according drivers. After updating to 2.6.27-7, 2.6.27-9 and
an update of akmod-fglrx in the fc9 repo compiz didn't start anymore and e.g. awn quit although fglrxinfo showed normal ATI, even glxinfo reported
direct rendering and glxgears worked.

If you experience the same problem, first check your Xorg.0.log:
$ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

If the output is like
(EE) AIGLX error: fglrx exports no extensions (/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driDriverExtensions)
then you have to relink libglx.so and libdri.so to the ATI versions (not the original ones from xorg). Thanks to the gentoo hackers
for this hint ;-)